Hello everyone. I must say, I had been looking for an easy blogging solution that doesn't require any mysql set up or difficult stuff like that, for a long time. And I finally found it! I'm now just starting with my site, but I feel like at home with the intuitive flat press interface. It's super easy to use for dummies like me!

Hi I'm chad and I'm thinking about switching blog software from Joomla and Serendipity to FlatPress. It's gonna be a tough migration so I want to simply start a fresh, new blog on FlatPress to get a feel for the system. Then I'll convert my other blogs over - in whatever way I find the most efficient.

I'm a control freak so I'm hoping FlatPress will give me the ability to do thing how I like.

I'm a fan of text file based computing. I've been in the software industry for a while now and through all the revolutions, the one solid format has remained basic text with minimal markup(down). No need for proprietary or open-source databases, no need for closed, custom file formats, no need for the complexity. Now that we design such smart systems on such fast machines we can come back to text file based computing and still deliver rich experiences.

I'm happy to see blogging software that thinks like I do. Thanks for making FlatPress. I'm hoping it will suit my purposes and that I'll use it for the next few years.

hi,just downloaded flatpress, getting a lot of errors on the Contact page...e.g.Strict Standards: Non-static method SmartyValidate::connect() should not be called statically in /var/www/flatpress/contact.php on line 40

Strict Standards: Non-static method SmartyValidate::is_valid_smarty_object() should not be called statically in /var/www/flatpress/fp-includes/smarty/SmartyValidate.class.php on line 48

Strict Standards: Non-static method SmartyValidate::_object_instance() should not be called statically in /var/www/flatpress/fp-includes/smarty/SmartyValidate.class.php on line 49

Strict Standards: Non-static method SmartyValidate::register_form() should not be called statically in /var/www/flatpress/fp-includes/smarty/SmartyValidate.class.php on line 50

Flatpress is exactly what I was looking for - text based (no SQL), lightweight, portable, and platform independent. Great job!

Since there are surely a number of like-minded folks here, I'd like some recommendations on non-database photo gallery software. I have been/still am using the http://galleryproject.org/Gallery 1 version, which does not require a database. But they stopped supporting that version long ago in favor of mysql versions, and now it appears that they are stopping development on that as well. I would sure like to find something to replace Gallery 1 that is currently working well and likely to be supported for some time to come.